There are countless number of people who have gone down in history for the important things they accomplished during their life time. Many of them left such a great impact that they affected the world we live in today. Galileo Galilei was one of these people. He is often mistakenly remembered as the guy who invented the telescope, when he actually just improved a previous design, and he did so much more than this even. He was an astronomer, physicist, and mathematician who was persecuted for trying to make known the truths he discovered. Galileo Galilei, was born February 15, 1564 into a world where “science” did not really exist and died January 8, 1642, leaving a world altered forever by “science.” His scientific journey began at the young age of seventeen when he started studying medicine. By age eighteen he had become more interested in mathematics. When he was twenty-two he made his first attribution to science when he …show more content…
Although he had scientific evidence proving his research, they would not listen logically and were firmly based on their previous beliefs. The Church tolerated people researching and experimenting, it was when they started trying to share their new found information and beliefs that it became a problem. Galileo’s persecution started in 1613 and continued until his death in 1642. 1613 was when the trouble started for him when it became difficult for him to get his works published. In 1616 was required to stand before Cardinal Robert Bellarmine and lectured towards ending his teaching and defending of the Copernican theory. In 1633, he was interrogated and threatened with torture before receiving a sentence to prison, which changed to house arrest because of his age, because of the content of his Dialogues Concerning the Two Great World